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    Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting
    Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting
    Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting
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    Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting

    By Speech Productivity

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    This guide is aimed at the novice Dragon Professional user who wants to get productive creating his/her own voice commands. Contrary to other books on the subject this is an easy to understand, step-by-step manual that will get you up and running in no time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpeech Productivity
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN9781393499756
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      I have been searching for a guide like this for years. I am not a programmer but use Dragon Naturally Speaking for all of my computer needs and need to write customized commands. The forums are helpful but this book provides very basic information that is easy to understand and utilize. This is a perfect companion guide for nonprogrammers. Thank you for providing it.

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    Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting - Speech Productivity

    Copyright

    Copyright © 2018 Speech Productivity

    All rights reserved. This book or any portion of it may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    Printed in the Netherlands

    First printing February 21 2018

    Introduction

    My name is Rob Meulman I'm a long-term Dragon user with a lot of experience in creating practical and effective voice commands. Looking back at my early Dragon years I found there wasn't a single easy to understand manual for creating voice commands available. Sadly that didn’t change much through the years.

    The ability to create your own voice commands for controlling Windows and most of your other software is a very powerful feature of Dragon professional. After all, it's probably the reason you bought this wonderful program.

    But the Dragon scripting language may be complete abracadabra to those who have no programming experience whatsoever.

    Sure, there's the Dragon help files but they too (implicitly) assume that you are already familiar with some basic understanding of computer/programming language, at least for the complete beginner it really seems that way.

    Sure, there's the much acclaimed Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking book by Larry Allen. It may be a good manual but not for the complete beginner. Besides, it focuses only on Advanced Scripting.

    I found the (free) VoiceCmd.pdf a much better alternative because it focuses on DVC. It still floats around on the Internet. But even this one is too complicated for the absolute novice. Another problem with both these books is that about 80% of the (often complex) techniques described there really aren't used much by the average user.

    Dragon's language to create voice commands resembles the Visual Basic for applications (VBA) programming language.

    Does that mean I need to have a minimal understanding of Visual Basic? No, it doesn't. I found that 95% of the voice commands I use are based on the following (relatively simple) techniques:

    SendKeys, AppBringUp, HeardWord and Mouse Position commands.

    These (and occasionally some others) are mostly all you need on an everyday basis. All techniques will be explained in a simple easy to understand way. And no, I am not going to assume any previous programming/scripting experience.

    I will only discuss the techniques that you need to dramatically increase your productivity with Dragon. You will learn enough to control Windows and most of your applications by voice. This book will definitely also inspire you to be creative with your own voice commands.

    If you want to dive into more complex types of macros you can look for more advanced techniques on the KnowBrainer forum which is the number one speech recognition forum out there:

    http://www.knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/index.cfm

    Here you will find many fine examples of complex commands created by talented users.

    Remember that it's usually more effective and productive to begin with doing creative editing on existing complex voice commands then writing them yourself (from scratch).

    It’s also a great way to develop your understanding of how such commands are constructed.

    Advanced Scripting versus DVC (Legacy Commands)

    The first couple of Dragon versions didn't support Advanced Scripting (VBA like programming language) but used DVC (legacy) programming instead. From version 5 and up both languages were supported.

    What's the difference?

    Advanced Scripting means: relatively complex programming with Visual Basic elements and expressions implemented. Put simply: you can create a wide range of voice commands, call all kinds of Windows functions etc..

    DVC is more limited but much faster and will suffice for about 95% of voice commands users need on a daily basis. Although DVC scripting has always been faster, Advanced Scripting in more recent Dragon versions has almost become lethargic. Some Advanced Scripting commands take at least twice as long to deploy compared to DVC commands. Some people, like myself have converted most existing Advanced Scripting commands to DVC.

    This book will focus on DVC commands

    Some say that Nuance

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